BULLYING.

Introduction
Bullying isn’t just punching someone in the face or someone calling
you names. Bullying is a lot more than that. There are different types of
bullying. Here are some examples, physical, verbal, indirect, social
alienation, and cyber bullying. Did you know that an estimated 200
million children and youth around the world are being bullied? It’s true
that much people are being bullied.
Physical bullying is any kind of physical contact that could hurt
someone. Like punching, pushing, kicking, hitting, and more. For
example, if someone came up to you and shoved you to the ground
that would be physical bullying. If someone just punched you in the
face it would be physical bullying. Even if someone’s poking you and
you don’t like it that’s physical bullying.
Verbal bullying is name calling, making offensive remarks, or joking
about someone’s race, religion, social status, gender, or the way that
they look. 46.5% of bullying in schools is verbal bullying. If someone
made fun of the way you look that’s verbal bullying. If someone called
you stupid that’s verbal bullying. Verbal aggression is when a bully
teases someone. It is also making verbal threats of violence or
aggression against someone's personal property.
Indirect bullying is spreading rumors about someone, gossiping about
it, and excluding others from groups. Indirect bullying is 18.5% of all
bullying. If you spread a rumor about a girl in class just because you
thought it was funny or if it was because you didn’t like her that would
be indirect bullying.
Social alienation is when a bully excludes someone from a group on
purpose. It also includes spreading rumors, or pointing out someone
else’s differences. For example if a group of people didn’t want to hang
out with this girl from their class because they thought she was weird,
that would be social alienation.
Intimidation is when a bully threatens or intimidates someone else
enough to get the person to do what they want. For example if you told
a person to give you money or else you’re going to beat them up, that
would be intimidation. Your scaring someone into giving you their own
money.
Cyber bullying is done by sending messages, pictures, or information
using electronic media, computers, emails, instant messengers, and cell
phones. Thirteen million people from ages 6 to 17 are victims of cyber
bullying. Two million of these victims told no one about it and 8 percent
tried to commit suicide due to it. For example if you go on Facebook
and you start chatting with a person you don’t like and start calling
them names, that would be cyber bullying. If you threaten someone
online that is cyber bullying. If you tell someone that they should just
go kill themselves because of their appearance that is cyber bullying.
Girls are about twice as likely as boys to be victims and perpetrators of
cyber bullying.
Did you know that an estimated 600,000 children miss school
everyday due to the fear of being attacked, intimidated, or bullied by
other students? Because of bullying students are missing out on their
education. Students should be able to feel safe at school. They should
be able to feel safe all the time without the fear of being punched,
ridiculed, or intimidated.
Suicide remains one of the leading causes of the deaths of children
under 14. And in most cases they die from hanging. Do you want to
know why they committed suicide? It’s because they have been bullied
or for some other reason. In 2007 there was a study which showed that
86% of all lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transsexual students have been
bullied because of their sexual orientation. Research also indicates that
an LGBT youth is more likely to think about and attempt suicide than a
heterosexual youth. One-third of the LGBT students who reported
about being bullied because of their sexual orientation said that the
school staff did nothing in response.
The effects of bullying are worse than you think. Some victims chose
to leave school early because of the fear of being bullied. Others have
fallen into depression. One common effect of bullying is that it lowers
the victims’ self-esteem, or self-confidence. There is often no end to
bullying it often continues for the rest of their life even if they are
adults. Because of bullying it leaves a different personality and creates
a pattern in the victims mind. Some victims think or try to commit
suicide. Some were successful at it. Here are some of the short-term
and long-term effects of bullying: anger, depression, difficulty trusting
people, tendency to be a loner, desire for revenge, greater incidence of
illnesses, lower grades than non-bullied peers, and suicidal thoughts or
feelings.
Resource Pages:

 http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=doc&id=13057
 http://www.dealingwithbullies.org/the-effects-of-bullying-for-victims
 http://www.kidspot.com.au/schoolzone/Bullying-Facts-and-figures-about-
bullying+4065+395+article.htm
 http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/00117/typesbullying.html#
 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080523063701AAXPd12